Advertising game



May 26, 1925.

1,538,967 E. A. BQARDMAN ADVERTISING GAME Filed Auz. 1'7. 1923 lOlMAlN er.

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Patented May 35, 1925.

EDWIN A IBOABDMAN, O1! CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON.

ADVERTISING GAME.

Application filed August 17, 1923.

To all whom it 'nwg concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN A. BOA'RDMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Centralia, in the county of Lewis and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved advertising game and seeks, among other ob jects, to provide a simple and inexpensive game device which will constitute a means whereby a group of merchants may collec tively advertise their goods.

The invention seeks, as a further object, to provide a game device incorporating an attractive inducement to operate the game in that said game device may be operated to de termine whether or not a prospective 1311b chaser of any selected article of goods will be required to pay for said article or will obtain the article free.

And the invention seeks, as a still further object, to provide a game device wherein the advertisements of the several merchants may be readily removed, interchanged, or replaced, so that should one or more advertisers of a group desire to discontinue, new advertisements may be embodied in the game to take the place of the advertisements discontinued.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved advertising game,

Figure 2 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, and

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view through one of the spring clamps employed.

In carrying the invention into effect, I employ a preferably circular game board and rising from'the game board centrally thereof is a post 11 upon which is swiveled a pointer 12 provided at its forward end with a flexible tip 13. The element 10 may be constructed of cardboard or other suitable material and mounted thereon near the periphery of the game board is an annular series of pegs 14 engageable by the tip 13 of the pointer as the pointer rotates. The marginal band defined upon the game board by said series of pegs is divided by suitable lines into a plurality of reversely presented Serial 1T0. 657,944).

sector-shaped spaces 15 in each of which is suitably imposed anumber as indicated at 16, the numbers being preferably arbitrarily arranged or, in other words, not'in numerical sequence. The pegs comprehended in each of said spaces are accordingly identified by the number in said space and some of the numbers may, if desired, be colored red. Abutting at their outer ends against said pegs is a series of mating sector-shaped advertising cards 18 resting flat upon the same board and overlying said cards are similarly shaped transparent shields 19 which are preferably of celluloid, the shields being employed to prevent soiling .or mar ring of the cards. Threaded into the game board between the cards near the inner and outer ends thereof are cap screws 20 and swiveled upon said screws are bowed springclamps 21' bearing at their ends against the shields 19. Preferably the ends of said clamps are roughened or provided with teeth so as to obtain a firm grip upon the shields. Thus, the clamps will function to firmly hold the shields position against the cards 18 as well as also hold the cards in position upon the game board and, as will be noted, the screws 20 may be adjusted for varying the tension upon the clamps. However, by springing the clamps out of engagement with the shields 19 and swinging said clamps into parallel relation to the edges of the cards, the cards may be readily lifted upwardly and removed independently of each other. The cards 18 may, like the game board 10, also be formed from cardboard or other suitable material and, as suggested in Figure 1, are each designed to carry a suitable advertisement. Thus, agroup of merchants of anumber equal to the number of the advertising cards, may advertise their goods by means of the device. Each advertisement will, as also suggested in Figure 1, preferably be identified by a number comprised in the series of numbers in the spaces 15 of the game board and will also indicate that a prospective purchaser of an article, for instance, set forth in the advertisement, may, should the pointer 12 when spun by the prospective purchaser, stop on said number, obtain the article free. Thus, the game will embody its own inducement with the result that parties will be attracted to the game and the publicity sought by the group of advertisers accordingly obtained. Since the advertising cards 18, as arranged upon the game board, serve to define a circular space centrally of the board, this space may also be employed as an advertising space and, as further suggested in Figure 1, carry an advertisement indicating that should the pointer stop on a red number, some commodity may be obtained free. It will accordingly be seen that I provide a particularly simple and efficient device for the purpose set forth and a device which will prove attractive to merchants or the like as a means of furthering their business.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. An advertising game including agame board having a series of pegs upstanding theretron'i, a. series of numbers upon the game board identifying said pegs, a revoluble pointer carried by the board and provided at one end with a flexible tip to cooperate with the pegs, a series of advertising cards removably mounted upon the board and bearing numbers comprised in said series'of numbers, shields overlying said cards, screws threaded into the board. between the cards, and bowed spring clamps swiveled upon said screws to bear at theirends against said shields holding the shields and said cards in position.

2. In a game apparatus, the combination of a game board having a series of numbers thereon, a revoluble pointer adapted to stop at any one of said numbers for selecting the number indicated, an advertising card resting upon the board and bearing a number comprised in said series of numbers, and resilient clamping means upon the board retaining the card in position.

3. In a game apparatus, the combination of a game board having a series of numbers thereon, a revoluble pointer adapted to stop at any one of said numbers for selecting the number indicated, an advertising card resting upon the board and bearing a number comprised in said series of numbers, and aspring clamp engaging the card holding the card in position.

4-. In a game apparatus, the combination ofa. game board having a series of numbers thereon, a revoluble pointer adapted to stop at any one of said numbers for selecting the number indicated, advertising cards resting upon the board and bearing numbers comprised in said series of numbers, and a bowed spring clamp bearing at its ends against the cards holding the cards in .position.

5. In a game apparatus, the combination of a game board having a series of numbers thereon, a revoluble pointer adapted to stopat any one of said numbers; for selecting the number indicated, an annular series of sec tor-shaped advertising cards resting upon the board beneath the pointer and bearing numbers comprised in said series of num bers, and yieldable means mounted upon the board between the cards and movable to overhang the confronting edges of the cards clamping the cards in position.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signa ture.

EDWIN A. BOARDMAN. Ii 8.

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